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"Weel, Chairlie," and Jamie examined the well-dressed prodigal from top to toe, "this is a prood moment for Drumtochty, and an awfu' relief tae ken yir safe. Man, ye hevna wanted meat nor claithes; a' tak it rael neeburly o' ye tae speak ava wi' us auld-fashioned fouk.
A sair day they had of it; their hands was never aff the sheets, and it perishin' cauld ower cauld to snaw; and aye they would get a bit nip o' wind, and awa' again, to pit the emp'y hope into them. Eh, man! but they had a sair day for the last o't! He would have had a prood, prood heart that won ashore upon the back o' that. 'And were all lost? I cried. 'God held them!
'A lang-leggit, prood, landless laird, she would say, with a moist glimmer in her loving eyes, 'wi' the maist ridiculous feet ye ever saw hardly room for the five taes atween the twa! Losh! When Robert went forth into the streets, he was surprised to find how friendly every one was.
"It wasn't a teeger, Miss Jessie," interposed Sandy Black, "it was only a leopard ane o' thae wee spottit beasts that they're sae prood o' in this country as to ca' them teegers." "Come, Sandy," cried Jerry Goldboy, "don't rob me of the honour that is my due. The hanimal was big enough to 'ave torn you limb from limb if 'e'd got 'old of you."
Ye savit Flora Cammil, and young Burnbrae, an' yon shepherd's wife Dunleith wy, an' we were a sae prood o' ye, an' pleased tae think that ye hed keepit deith frae anither hame. Can ye no think o' somethin' tae help Annie, and gie her back tae her man and bairnies?" and Tammas searched the doctor's face in the cold, weird light.
"'Sir, says MacBethmann, trembling in every limb and even in his neck, 'ye'd be wise no' to go out the day. "But the prood 'Sausage-Killer' rises himself to his full length. "'Unhand ma pants, Angus, says he, 'ma duty calls, and away goes the puir wee feller to meet his doom at the hands of the Terror of the Skies." "That's you," said the girl.
"Look, Kate, there he is;" and there Peter was, standing in his favourite attitude, his legs wide apart and his thumbs in his armholes, superior, abstracted, motionless till the train stopped, when he came forward. "Prood tae see ye, General, coming back at laist, an' the Miss wi' ye; it 'll no be the blame o' the fouk up by gin ye bena happy.
"A 'm dootin', Miss Carnegie, the gude-wife hes keepit ye ower lang in the gairden haiverin' awa' aboot the flooers an' her ither trokes. But she 's michty prood for a' that aboot yir comin' up tae veesit us." Such was the second conference on Kate's affairs on that day.
But I doot ye maun bide till ye gang to Edinburgh, or Aberdeen, whaur ye'll easy fa' in wi' some lang-leggit bejan that'll be prood to instruc' ye, and coont himsel' ower weel paid wi' the sicht o' yer bonny face. "She turned some reid at that, and I was feared that I had angert her.
Ye savit Flora Cammil, and young Burnbrae, an' yon shepherd's wife Dunleith wy, an' we were a sae prood o' ye, an' pleased tae think that ye hed keepit deith frae anither hame. Can ye no think o' somethin' tae help Annie, and gie her back tae her man and bairnies?" and Tammas searched the doctor's face in the cold, weird light.
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